Paranoid Penguin - Linux Security Challenges 2010

Security challenges and worries for 2010: we live in interesting times indeed!

Conclusion

The explosive proliferation of new types of Web applications, cloud
computing services and virtualization solutions are exposing our
data, systems and networks in ever-bigger, ever-further-reaching
ways. Targeted malware, man-in-the-middle attack techniques and similar
threats against SSL/TLS, the involvement of organized identity theft
rings, and other nasty trends on the attack side of the equation only
make it harder for those of us concerned with security to protect these
emerging applications, services and infrastructures.

But what is a crisis, if not a job for experts? Interesting times call
for creative, technology-obsessed types like Linux
Journal's readers
(and columnists), and I have no doubt that we, the geek community, are
amply up to the challenge. So, here's wishing you a safe, productive
and interesting (in the good sense, not just the scary sense) 2010!

Mick Bauer (darth.elmo@wiremonkeys.org) is Network
Security
Architect for one of the US's largest banks. He is the author of
the O'Reilly book Linux Server Security, 2nd edition
(formerly called
Building Secure Servers With Linux), an occasional
presenter at
information security conferences and composer of the “Network
Engineering Polka”.